En una ceremonia realizada en la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile, el Rector Ennio Vivaldi en representación del Vicepresidente del Consejo de Rectores, Aldo Valle, destacó el esfuerzo de los jóvenes que obtuvieron puntajes nacionales en la Prueba de Selección Universitaria. El Rector Vivaldi destacó en su discurso que estos jóvenes son un ejemplo, pero que también tienen la responsabilidad de pensar los problemas que enfrenta el país.“Esta ceremonia tiene una doble connotación.

Virtualmente través de redes sociales y presencialmente en la feria apostada en la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la U. de Chile, los estudiantes que participan del proceso de admisión 2016 se han acercado a la Casa de Bello para recibir orientación vocacional e información sobre financiamiento, admisión y matricula.

La plataforma dará autonomía y profundidad al estudio de datos biológicos masivos, al ofrecer servicios para que los investigadores del área de las ciencias de la vida exploren sus datos directamente en todas las etapas de sus trabajos.Con la presencia del Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, junto a académicos, estudiantes de doctorado y postdoctorados de las facultades de Ciencias, Ciencias Agronómicas, Ciencias Veterinarias y Agropecuarias, Medicina y Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), INTA, además de investigadores del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático

En la inauguración de esta actividad universitaria, encabezada por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, se realizó el lanzamiento del libro "Cuentos de la Universidad Azul en la Ciudad Gris", en el que la Universidad se da a conocer mediante historietas manga, creadas por sus propios estudiantes. La feria, que se extenderá hasta el 30 de diciembre, es un espacio de información y orientación que ofrece la Casa de Bello a la comunidad sobre sus más de 70 programas académicos.

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Date published: January 11, 2016"The episode has also renewed attention to whether Binge On is permissible under the FCC net neutrality rules.

A visibly agitated man once entered the American retail giant Target to inquire why his teenage daughter had been receiving coupons of baby products. A few days later, when the manager of the store called up the man to apologize to him, the father replied that his daughter was infact pregnant. Following the incident,  New […]

There is more than what meets the eye in Facebook’s ‘noble mission’ of providing internet for all.
The article by Pratap Vikram Singh and Taru Bhatia was published by Governance Now on January 5, 2016. Sunil Abraham gave inputs.

Phil Howard on 10 January 2016 at 19:41PM Here is an interactive Prezi describing the goals, work plan and initial findings of the Computational Propaganda Research Project.
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In the spirit of the New Year, and especially in the wake of California's draft rules for the (theoretical) operation of automated motor vehicles, I offer two resolutions for any serious developer of an automated driving (or flying) system.

Jóvenes de distintos países que estuvieron en las salas de la Universidad evalúan esta experiencia, presentan sus visiones sobre la cultura y sociedad chilena y convocan a sus pares a venir a estudiar en la Casa de Bello.Lo difícil que resulta entender cómo hablan los chilenos, los problemas políticos del país, el debate por la reforma educacional, qué es la identidad chilena y las comidas típicas, son algunos de los temas que los estudiantes de intercambio comentan en un video realizado por el equipo del Programa de Movilidad Estudiantil (PME).

Clare Birchall in the International Journal of Communication: “As many anthropologists and sociologists have long argued, understanding the meaning and place of secrets is central to an adequate representation of society. This article extends previous accounts of secrecy in social, governmental, and organizational settings to configure secrecy as one form of visibility management among others. Doing so helps to remove the secret from a post-Enlightenment value system that deems secrets bad and openness good.

The Guardian: “In 2015 the EU launched the world’s first international data portal, the Chinese government pledged to make state data public, and the UK lost its open data crown to Taiwan. Troves of data were unlocked by governments around the world last year, but the usefulness of much of that data is still to be determined by the civic groups, businesses and governments who use it. So what’s in the pipeline? And how will the open data ecosystem grow in 2016? We asked the experts.

CREATe Working Paper by Lilian Edwards: “Smart cities” are a buzzword of the moment. Although legal interest is growing, most academic responses at least in the EU, are still from the technological, urban studies, environmental and sociological rather than legal, sectors2 and have primarily laid emphasis on the social, urban, policing and environmental benefits of smart cities, rather than their challenges, in often a rather uncritical fashion3 .

Paper by Aarti Gupta and Michael Mason: “Transparency is increasin

Paper by Yannis Charalabidis, Charalampos Alexopoulos & Euripidis Loukis in  the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce: “The opening of government data, in order to have both social and economic valu

The last quarter of 2015 alone witnessed three key events that displayed the diversity of views on internet governance. Namely, the 10th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the United Nations WSIS+10 High Level Meeting, and the 2nd World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, China. Each of these events captured various models of internet governance both as […]

Book edited by Surya Nepal, Cécile Paris and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos: “This book highlights state-of-the-art research, development and implementation efforts concerning social media in government services, bringing together researchers and practitioners in a number of case studies.

Introduction by Pieter Ballon , Dimitri Schuurman: “This special issue on “Living labs: concepts, tools and cases” comes 10 years after the first scientific publications that defined the notion of living labs, but more than 15 years after the ap

Lawrence Susskind and Ella Kim in The Conversation: “…We have been testing the use of role-playing games to promote collaborative decision-making by nations, states and communities. Unlike online computer games, players in role-playing games interact face-to-face in small groups of six to eight. The games place them in a hypothetical setting that simulates a real-life problem-solving situation.